I swore off sex for the next year (true story).
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Kirsten Gillibrand and Cory Booker swore off corporate money. Sens.
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It's been four days since Kim Kardashian West swore off selfies.
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I swore off themes with stacked entries after my last one.
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So I swore off dating until I felt more comfortable with myself.
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Most groups swore off Kessler's event entirely and even discouraged others to attend.
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I sort of swore off deadlines because they seemed so hazardous to health.
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Both Sanders and Warren swore off big-money events early in their presidential bids.
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It's one of my most prized possessions, and I swore off God years ago!
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You swore off Uber Eats and promised to start actually cooking dinner at home.
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The tragic lesson left an impact on the President, who long ago swore off alcohol.
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That means that if you swore off makeup forever, you could easily buy a house.
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But he swore off any type of legal status for those already in America illegally.
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Maybe you swore off sugary drinks, and it's weird when their family offers you some.
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I swore off background music jazz gigs and took a job at a pizza place.
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Then, during his Senate run, he swore off consultants and refused to hire a pollster.
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She had previously experimented with party drugs, but after almost dying, she swore off drugs completely.
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She swore off business and stayed home, painting and listening to the heavy-metal band Disturbed.
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So sickening, in fact, that during the process of writing it, Bong altogether swore off meat.
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"That's when I swore off meat pretty much for good," Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson.
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Her decision to get more work done came years after the star swore off plastic surgery.
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Taxis swore off smooth jazz and Top 40 for audio feeds from the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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Her decision to get more work done came years after the star swore off plastic surgery.
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Pence, who swore off negative campaigning after losing a vituperative congressional race in 1990, eschews name calling.
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Bernie Sanders, who both swore off big-dollar fundraising, amassed the two largest third-quarter fundraising hauls.
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In a presidential field where numerous candidates swore off corporate PAC money, Warren went a step further.
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I swore off dunks years ago, but I still find myself aping Michael Jordan now and again.
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One night after she "swore off all business," Suzy was eating dinner with some friends and family.
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He also swore off money from corporate donors, and promised to work with Republicans where he can.
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He once showered in a business suit for a political ad in which he swore off dirty politics.
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We swore off pesticides and bought a Fiskars reel mower, a simple machine with a cheerful orange cover.
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Hitfix's Donna Dickens swore off the show, as did the recapping crew at Vox's sister site the Verge.
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Unlike Biden and Buttigieg, however, Warren swore off fundraising events and has held no private meetings with big donors.
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In last year's German elections all parties swore off the use of bots (though the AfD dragged its feet).
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I swore off bikinis for years because I thought my stomach, which is not flat, looked gross in them.
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She had been floated as a possible presidential candidate early in the 2016 cycle, but swore off a run.
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"I was heartbroken — I swore off baseball," said Friedman, who had witnessed Scott's division-clinching no-hitter that September.
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There were people who really disliked that movie so much that they swore off all Star Wars ever again.
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If everyone who lived in a sultry climate swore off cooking for the season, summer meals would be dull indeed.
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Overcome by distrust of strangers, she swore off public transportation and began to rely on ride-sharing services like Uber.
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But he swore off such language last year after a shooter opened fire on a congressional baseball practice in Virginia.
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In the mid-1980s, Ms. Moran swore off Hollywood and left Los Angeles for a home in the California mountains.
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Warren publicly swore off getting the support of billionaires and went as far as to closing down her joint fundraising committee.
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At the second location, I ordered my fourth official L.I.T. while Peter smartly swore off the abomination and got a beer.
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Warren swore off holding big-dollar events, even as her home state functions as a piggy bank for other 2020 Democrats.
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Of course, Brown swore off the NFL on Sunday morning ... just days after he was cut by the New England Patriots.
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He swore off personal attacks on campaign opponents, saying he regretted his tactics against his two-time Democratic rival, Representative Phil Sharp.
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Ms. Warren made one of the biggest gambles of the race in February when she swore off holding high-dollar fund-raisers.
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There are the towering platform espadrilles we purchased for full price — and quickly swore off after one too many nights nursing painful blisters.
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Woods swore off the service back in November, claiming that he was finished with Twitter and all its censorship of alt-right voices.
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So far that we canceled our ongoing series The Walking Dead Quitter's Club, and co-author Bryan Bishop swore off the show entirely.
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On campaign finance:During his failed Senate run in Texas in the 2018 midterm elections, O'Rourke swore off donations from PACs and corporate donors.
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She swore off regular work after a miserable supermarket job, and did stints as a music journalist, pornographic-movie reviewer, prostitute and masseuse.
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Krystal also pointed out that she swore off big money only after it was proven that she could make sufficient cash from it.
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It's no accident that after Americans swore off rich sauces, they began to hunger for fatty cuts like pork butt and rib-eye.
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If you swore off chunky sneakers in the '90s, brace yourself, because the trend is back, and has even started to infiltrate workout shoes.
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In my first film, Murder Party, there is an overnight siege situation in an abandoned warehouse, and I swore off doing that ever again.
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The Washington Post reported recently that Beto O'Rourke, who previously swore off any private fundraisers, had held an exclusive event with maxed-out donors.
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Monsanto's chief executive, Hugh Grant, last month swore off big deals after failing to buy a rival, Syngenta, which is now being sold to ChemChina.
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Earlier this year, Warren went farther than her rivals who have mostly refused to take money from corporate lobbyists, and swore off conducting high-dollar fundraisers.
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I swore off indoor cycling for years until I took a SoulCycle class with an instructor who resonated with me and chugged the organic Kool Aid.
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Ms. Stahl asked Mr. Pence, who publicly swore off negative campaigning years ago, how he could run with a candidate so reflexively given to name-calling.
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Former auto engineer Hugo Spowers swore off working with petrol engines 222 years ago when he began toying with the idea of building hydrogen-powered vehicles.
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In 2012, Preysman swore off the world of physical retail, telling the New York Times he would rather "shut the company down" before opening a store.
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Bush, who swore off golf shortly after the start of the Iraq War, hosted more than a dozen leaders among the scrub brush at his Crawford ranch.
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When your friends who swore off pop music back in high school are humming along to "Love Yourself," you know something fundamental has shifted about Justin Bieber.
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Chloë MacDonald-Comely, 20303, swore off fast fashion as a New Year's resolution, citing its immense waste and the higher potential for cheap fabrics to shed microplastics.
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The launch comes just days after Biden's campaign signaled they were open to help from a super PAC, after the campaign swore off such an effort for weeks.
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George and Amal got hitched in 2014 ... a long time coming for George, who once swore off marriage and kids as one of Hollywood's most notorious bachelors. Congrats.
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Months later, she connected the dots, realizing that the timing of her mental health issues matched up with her use of the Pill, and swore off hormonal birth control.
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There was never any overflow of top-tier applicants, given how many Republicans swore off Trump and how many others were spurned by him for not being obsequious enough.
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She also swore off large donations from executives at big banks, private equity firms or hedge funds after previously promising to deny the same from pharmaceutical and fossil fuel executives.
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Across the country, many Democratic candidates swore off corporate political action committee money, noted Waleed Shahid, communications director for Justice Democrats, a liberal organization which backed candidates such as Ocasio-Cortez.
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I swore off all dating apps for over a year, but I re-downloaded Bumble a few nights ago because a couple friends recently shared stories of successfully acquiring man friends.
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If Trump never gave another angry news conference or swore off explosive tweets, it's possible that his political situation -- and his 39% approval rating in the latest CNN poll -- would improve.
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Why it matters: Warren swore off "big money fundraisers" at the start of this cycle, but she's managed to rake in a massive amount of money from grassroots, small-dollar donors.
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I swore off foundation altogether, opting instead for a more low-maintenance approach: concealer for undereye circles and zits, a sweep of translucent powder over the entire face, and that's it.
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PIETY AND POWERMike Pence and the Taking of the White HouseBy Tom LoBianco After losing his first campaign for Congress, a penitent Mike Pence swore off the dark side of politics.
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He recalled the time he tricked Steven Seagal into killing him at the end of The Glimmer Man after Seagal swore off killing people in movies because it brought him bad karma.
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I wrote obsessively in a journal, even when hanging out with friends (which I imagine was disturbing), I swore off masturbation, eating for pleasure, and anything I thought of as an indulgence.
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According to Obama White House insiders, then-chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was so angry about how the process had gone down on the first attempt that he swore off trying again.
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Bernie Sanders — who swore off big-money fundraisers and criticized Hillary Clinton's fundraising as "obscene" during the 2016 campaign — is changing his approach as the scramble for Democratic campaign cash heats up.
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While they were used more frequently in the mid-twentieth century, the Senate in effect swore-off standing joint committees after the House abolished the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy in 85033.
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Last week our ongoing series The Walking Dead Quitter's Club came to an end, with the show's season premiere going so far that club co-founder Bryan Bishop swore off the series entirely.
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Ted Cruz last fall, he swore off PAC money altogether, winning national attention for a grassroots campaign rooted in small-dollar fundraising and a prolific field operation — one that eschewed negativity and attack ads.
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It was sort of surprising seeing the up-until-recently MIA 26-year-old (who previously swore off country music awards) effortlessly glide across the stage showing that much skin on a more traditional awards show.
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Though he swore off a 2020 run during his Texas Senate race against Republican Ted Cruz, O'Rourke this week changed his tune, saying that he and his wife "made a decision not to rule anything out."
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The Superstore star, 34, "swore off scales" well before her pregnancy, but now, five months after giving birth to her first child, son Sebastian (nicknamed Baz), she's making an extra effort to be kind to her body.
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The Reality: Following the Trump administration's imposition of sweeping economic sanctions targeting Iran's oil exports, Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei – the ultimate authority in Iran's government – swore off new negotiations with the Trump administration over Iran's nuclear program.
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Mr. Pence, on the other hand, so believes in the virtues of civility that he wrote an article, "Confessions of a Negative Campaigner," in which he swore off the politics of attack after losing a congressional race.
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As Democratic engagement and enthusiasm has spiked, the party has seen a wave of small-dollar donors who stocked its candidates' coffers — even for candidates who swore off money from corporate political action committees, lobbyists and bundlers.
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Mr. Legkov, one of the most famous athletes in Russia, said Dr. Rodchenkov's allegation that the drugs were served up in alcohol to mask their presence was especially incredible, since Olympic athletes swore off drinking during their training.
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Warren and Sanders, who represent the ultra-progressive wing of their party, swore off big-dollar fundraising in their campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination, and their financial strength underscores the enthusiasm of online donors in the 2000 election.
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Buttigieg swore off any super PACs formed specifically to back him, but he has benefited from more than $1.3 million in New Hampshire TV ads from VoteVets, a veterans' group that backs Democratic candidates and endorsed Buttigieg in December.
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After the debacles in Cairo, where the Brothers were quickly ousted, and Libya, where Obama also backed Islamists against an unsavory American counterterrorism ally (as Moammar Gadhafi was regarded at the time), Obama prudently swore off intervention in Syria.
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With Isaiah now settled in Los Angeles and their first child on the way, the singer — who swore off love last year after going through high-profile breakups — is counting her blessings and embracing all the changes in her life.
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And legality aside, the repercussions of calling yourself an amateur "white-hat hacker" while using vulnerabilities in the wild can be serious: HackerGiraffe, the printer hacker, had a breakdown and swore off hacking forever after he was harassed on social media.
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The Indiana governor who swore off political mudslinging years ago heard Trump call Democratic rival Hillary Clinton "the devil" and watched him fan the flames of a feud with the parents of a Muslim soldier who died saving U.S. troops in Iraq.
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He has also exercised immense personal restraint: When he seriously returned to meditation in 2003 (he grew up on an ashram in Connecticut), he swore off drugs and alcohol, and until he married Kyoko Ito three years later, he was celibate, he says.
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Months after Sweetgreen officially swore off cash in all of its stores, the company says it's "so far, so good" — even as its exec stressed it's still developing a way to help those without credit cards or smartphones pay for their food.
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This my huge theory—and it's actually why I swore off music [at the time]: I discovered feminism, and I was like, 'Oh, there's a reason why every girl here is just a vocal performance major, and no one [majors in] like, jazz drums.
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I kept waiting for one of her rivals onstage to point out that before she swore off private fund-raisers organized by rich donors, she depended on them for her two victorious Senate campaigns, raising enough cash to transfer $10.4 million in leftover funds to her 2020 presidential bid.
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After his 2450 percent, those with the biggest share of funds from small contributors in the first quarter were the political newcomer Andrew Yang (2000 percent of his $1.7 million) and Ms. Warren (70.5 percent of her $6 million), who swore off big-money fund-raisers in a risky gamble.
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I considered a "Drop Squad"-style indoctrination that involved putting Mari in a dark room with a single harsh light and a table full of natural sistas reading "Happy to Be Nappy" and "I Love My Hair" through a bullhorn until my daughter publicly swore off any delusions of silky, swinging, white-girl hair.
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In and out of jail for more than a decade, Roy swore off both his heroin and California Department of Corrections problems in 2008 and has been a free man ever since—skating, coaching, odd-jobbing, and bringing his bastard style of hype MCing to the scavengers of Thrasher and VICELAND's King of the Road.
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Others said it didn't make a difference—or swore off tampons in favor of non-absorbent, silicone menstrual cups (a report published in 2015 detailed the case of a Canadian woman who developed TSS a few days after using a menstrual cup, but otherwise there hadn't been any research linking cups to the condition).
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Like Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenEXCLUSIVE: 2020 Dem Andrew Yang releases tax returns Saagar Enjeti: Why Warren's 'Medicare For All' rollout has contributed to polling drop Moderators named for December Democratic primary debate MORE, he swore off PAC money and has released a series of detailed policy plans (he was the first candidate with an immigration plan).
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What we're dealing with here, with these old timers, the lads and lasses who were chomping on Pink Panthers like they were Polo mints back when raves were free and fun and the 1994 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act was yet to be signed, are people who lived through the storied glory days, but swore off the hard stuff as soon as child rearing reared into view.
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Additionally, even IUDs with low doses of hormones still contain hormones—the same reason I swore off the pill years ago after my pharmacy switched me to a "same-but-cheaper" brand I eventually identified as the cause of mood swings that had me dancing in the kitchen at breakfast, crying in the shower at lunch, and sleeping through dinner because I was too sad to be awake.
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